It's almost 3 hours long.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113277/
And there's a thread that runs through the entire movie, beginning to end.
It's almost Shakespearean in concept...DeNiro is a career criminal, but big, high--tech heists.
Pacino's life, marriage, everything has been destroyed. In the movie, his daughter attempts suicide. But he's an L.A. detective who is as seasoned at enforcing the law as DeNiro is in breaking it.
The thread is that the movie is all about "scores"...the highest of high stakes, high profit crimes, the risks associated, the "human collateral" of lives destroyed.
And DeNiro is the white whale, Moby Dick, to Pacino's Captain Ahab.
Part of what drives criminals at the top, the adrenaline rush, is knowing they could be caught or killed or thrown into a prison cell for the rest of their lives.
TRUMP FACED THAT, and ESCAPED THAT. ALL of it. He's got $83 million he owes E Jean Carroll, and he had to put up another $7 million bond to cover the interest, but he has no intention of paying her, and he intends to kick the appeal all the way up to the SCOTUS.
ESCAPING THE NOOSE is the thrill. And because Trump experienced that on MULTIPLE OCCASIONS during and after his first term, and because John Roberts anointed him as the Christ Child, and...even if he's not dying, if he's just falling apart physically and mentally, hears the clock ticking. He wants to get away with one last HUGE heist...hence, the initial $10 billion demand, followed by the $1.8 billion slush fund, while demanding $1 billion for his ballroom.
It's like a drug addiction. The biggest "rush" in the world isn't sex, it isn't money, it isn't fame.
It's "getting away with it," and just like any addiction, it grows in intensity as long as the addict indulges it.
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